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What Matters Most On Monday, April 17, 2017

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at the conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters in Istanbul, on April 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic)

Turkey’s Erdogan hails ‘historic’ referendum win as opposition claims fraud

By Elena Becatoros, Suzan Fraser and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

Constitutional changes include replacing parliamentary system with presidential one, granting sweeping executive powers to president; opponents to challenge vote

Turkish referendum was ‘unlevel playing field’: monitors

By AFP

Turkish opposition calls to annul referendum results

Turkey’s Erdogan: A popular and polarizing figure

By Elena Becatoros and ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes outside the compound of the Israeli-run Ofer Prison near Ramallah on February 5, 2016 (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)

13 Palestinians said wounded in clashes with Israeli forces over hunger strike

At least 5 reported hurt from live fire during riot outside of Ofer Prison, clashes also reported in Bethlehem

In NYT piece, jailed Fatah terrorist accuses Israel of ‘judicial apartheid’

Abbas: World must intervene to ‘save’ hunger-striking prisoners

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners launch mass hunger strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

A man holds a photo of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti calling for his release during a rally supporting those detained in Israeli jails after hundreds of prisoners launched a hunger strike, in the West Bank town of Hebron on April 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

What the NY Times didn’t say about Barghouti

Op-Ed: Publishing an opinion piece full of invented horror stories, the Times neglected to tell its readers that the author is a murderer, convicted on multiple counts in a civilian court

A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Babe in arms

US summons British ‘terrorist’ baby for questioning

Paul Kenyon accidentally indicated that his 3-month-old grandson was an extremist on a visa application

Hank Azaria plays a baseball announcer in the IFC series 'Brockmire.' (Erica Doss/IFC/via JTA)

Interview

Hank Azaria opens up about speaking Ladino and his latest TV role

By Curt Schleier

Now in a popular cable series, the man of many voices says he feels ‘most at home with Jewish characters’

Nina L. Kampler

Passing over a son’s passing

Fifteen months after her son committed suicide, she is finding ways to feel less shackled to the pain

Izabella Tabarovsky

The courage to be Israeli

Unlike her Israeli friends, she doesn’t have to summon all her courage to board a train

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma (photo credit: AP/Michel Spingler/File)

British MPs call to strip UK-born Asma Assad of citizenship

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syrian president should not be able to represent her husband and his ‘barbarous regime’ and retain her British nationality, legislators say

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch (Courtesy)

Chabad rabbi brutally beaten in Ukraine dies of wounds

By ToI Staff and JTA

Six months after violent robbery, Rabbi Mendel Deitsch succumbs to injuries, is laid to rest in Jerusalem

In this photo taken on April 8, 2009, Jewish Yemeni boys sit behind the driver of a minibus as they travel back to the town of Raydah, after a morning of Hebrew classes in the nearby village of Kharif, Yemen photo credit: AP/Hamza Hendawi

Yemen minister says fate of country’s last 50 Jews unknown

Moammer al-Iryani says Houthi rebels, who control capital Sana’a, are engaged in ethnic cleansing which includes seeking to rid Yemen of all Jews

Professor Steven Werlin works with the Fonkoze (short for 'Shoulder-to-Shoulder) non-profit to help microfinance impoverished Haitian families. (Courtesy Fonkoze)

Interview

In impoverished Haiti, a Jewish prof advocates for a hand up, not a handout

By Cathryn J. Prince

A picture taken from the southern Gaza Strip shows Egyptian soldiers patrolling the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on February 9, 2017. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Clashes erupt between tribes and IS group in Sinai

Egyptian officials say three people injured as terror group launches RPG attacks in response to kidnapping of three of its members

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a joint press conference after talks with his Russian and Syrian counterparts in Moscow on April 14, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

Russia warns US against unilateral strike on North Korea

By AFP and ToI Staff

Moscow says it does not accept Pyongyang’s ‘reckless nuclear actions’ but states Washington must not ‘break international law’

Adam McKinney performs 'HaMapah/The Map.' (Amanda Adams Louis)

Drones onstage? Choreographer waltzes across genre, media and technology

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This file photo taken on March 23, 2017 shows US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson prior to a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir at the State Department in Washington, DC. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Tillerson visits Holocaust Museum with family

Protesters against far-right National Front leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen hold a banner reading 'fascist' during a protest march from suburban Aubervilliers to Paris, Sunday, April 16, 2017. (AP/Francois Mori)

Hundreds march against far-right French presidential hopeful

By AP

The Garden Museum in London (YouTube)

Builders find remains of ‘lost’ Archbishops of Canterbury in London crypt

By AFP

Actress Melissa McCarthy playing White Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live on April 15, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Pharaoh was worseSNL mocks Spicer’s Hitler-Assad gaffe

Police search for three youths who went missing on the Sea of Galilee on April 13, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Searches for 3 missing in Sea of Galilee enter 6th day

Illustrative photo of a man being arrested. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Murder suspect arrested after seeking aid in hospital

Clockwise, from left: Nitsana Darshan Leitner, Michael Oren, Natan Sharansky. (courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsNatan Sharansky, Michael Oren headline season of live English events

By Matthew Kalman

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